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clintonista:
Your belief that a winning outcome makes cheating less reprehensible is at once horri9fying and illuminating.
I never cheated. You did.
I'm glad we agree on that. You cheated on many counts this set according to yourself. And on one count according to me and the rest of the community: You attempted to have another player help you ingame. In the end he didn't do what you hoped he would.
Meanwhile when I did the land record I supposedly hit people I know for land. I still don't know who that would be. That's just another silly excuse if you don't show some degree of proof. The only proof you've offered is the fact that no one retalled me, which I have rebutted again and again the same way; I selected targets that I believed could not retal me in meaningful ways. Targets like your country for instance; I believe you were motivated to retal me, yet you didn't, because like the other targets you couldn't break/get in range. Like Celphi, I beat you into a pulp. I took the land record using your land, and there was nothing you could do about it. Candy from a baby comes to mind.
War can mean lots of things, victory or loss can take many forms. Your goal was either a kill or to get the land record and you failed at both. Celphi was going for killing or neutralizing you and he managed very successfully to neutralize you so that all you could do was lob some missiles and fail some SS/PS on him. Everyone who voiced an opinion on the matter so far has agreed that you lost since celphi could attack you in whichever way he pleased while you could do nothing to him. NW, land, production, successful hits, military might, spies, tech... all in favor of celphi, most so much that if you killed him his restart bonus would take him above you most of these areas.